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SubjectRe: 2.6.24-rc5: tape drive not responding
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On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 13:43 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:02:02 -0500
> "John Stoffel" <john@stoffel.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > Just to confirm, the propsed patch to st.c fixes the issue with
> > 2.6.24-rc5 as well at 2.6.24-rc5-mm1 with access to my DLT tape
> > drives.
>
> err, what patch to st.c?

That's this one:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6.git;a=commit;h=acdd0b1c371b2fbb4b6110a51ba69cb0af9e6f45

> So it seems that 2.6.24 (and presumably 2.6.23?) need

Not 2.6.23 .. the scatterlist changes causing the st problems are local
to 2.6.24.

> 1: Alan's "initio: fix conflict when loading driver" (currently stocuk
> in git-scsi-misc)

Yes, I'm moving this into scsi-rc-fixes

> 2: Boaz's "initio: initio_build_scb() fix" (my name for it)

And applying this ... although I'd still appreciate confirmation from
someone that the initio driver works after this.

> 3: The mystery st.c fix.
>
> yes?

James




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